Health World
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Gretchen Glode Berggren is a graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health where she served on the faculty from 1968-1993. Dr. Bergrren served as a maternal and child health and information systems consultant and Assistant Director of Community Health with the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti from 1967-1972, and 1993-1997. She has lived and worked in the Congo, Haiti, and Tunisia, later serving with Save the Children and World Relief in more than 26 countries. She developed curricula for training multidisciplinary community health workers that brought equity in services and reached the poorest. Recently her work has focused on the "positive deviance" method of identifying and transferring nutrition skills to poor mothers, taught by trained local women who act as resident home visitors and who organize temporary itinerant workshops known as "hearths" in the kitchens of volunteer mothers. Dr. Berggren received the International Health Award from Mother Theresa in 1986, was selected as one of six "Children's Health Champions" by the United Nations Children's Fund in 1992 and won the American Public Health Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. (http://www.globalhealth.org)

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